“Today's journal” head beats Merkel hard - “decline done”

Relentless TV commentary: After the AKK resignation, the head of today journal (ZDF) assesses the situation in the CDU. With Chancellor Merkel, he chooses drastic words.

• After the political quake in Thuringia , CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer resigned.
• In the ZDF-heute journal, editor-in-chief Wulf Schmiese is now making a grim forecast for the CDU.
• He expresses massive criticism of Angela Merkel .

Berlin - Today, journalist Wulf Schmiese commented on the sudden resignation of CDU boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer * on Monday on ZDF in unusually drastic words. The CDU now continues what began with the SPD - the decline of the popular parties because they neglect their margins, ”predicts Schmiese. The ZDF man made this clear in a vivid metaphor. "Once the people's parties were stable tankers, today nobody can stand long on their slippery command bridges," said the journalist. AKK did not find a stop.

“Today Journal” editorial director blames Merkel for the decline of the CDU

Gerhard Schröder had already committed the popular parties' failure to neglect their political margins . "As party leader and chancellor, he wanted to force his party left behind his agenda policy with a Basta command and when he didn't succeed, he let them go without compromise," Schmiese recalled. The conclusion: The SPD is halved today. And the situation at the CDU is currently not much better. This is also shown by a current survey *, which clarifies the consequences of the Thuringia debacle for the CDU. According to Schmiese, one of the reasons for the long-lasting crisis of the CDU is the Federal Chancellor. " Angela Merkel did not try to pay attention to the right edge of the CDU," criticizes the ZDF man. "As a refugee chancellor, she may have acted correctly, but as CDU chairwoman , she did serious damage. In doing so, it has caused the decline of its People's Party . ”Because a party had grown up to the right of the CDU that would topple the entire political system today.

In an interview by SPD leader Norbert Walter-Borjans on Deutschlandfunk, one could also read that the political system in Germany is shaking *. He made statements that didn't do anything good for the GroKo.

"Today Journal" (ZDF): Schmiese warns of a pact between CDU and AfD

Schmiese emphatically warns of a pact or even a coalition between the CDU and AfD : "The CDU would give up if it coalized with these right-wing extremists or even made a pact," he said. And it happened in Thuringia at least for a short time last week. Experts are now also questioning that the events in the election in Thuringia were just coincidence. The next developments will probably show whether the Thuringian electoral scandal is actually a card game *. Schmiese also emphasizes that simply banning a pact with the AfD would not be enough.

Angela Merkel described the union of values ​​as a cancer of the CDU. Find out what is behind this association here. *

“The popular parties themselves have to integrate marginal positions that are not anti-democratic. Otherwise the tanker will become a folding boat and the entire state could capsize, ”warns Schmiese. Then he ventures into a possible future scenario. "If Armin Laschet became party leader, which is not unlikely, he would need conservative support . Only if the CDU, as a party in the middle, can endure margins on the left and right, will it be able to remain the People's Party, ”the Today-Journal director is certain. And also emphasizes: "If not, it strengthens those who want to steer the country from the center to the edge."

At the #CDU, the decline of the popular parties continues, commented today-journal-editor-in-chief @wulfschmiese. Only if the CDU, as a party in the middle, can endure margins on the left and right, will it be able to remain a #public party. pic.twitter.com/ptn30gcnYA

By the way: AKK's resignation on Monday was also an issue for “Hart but fair”. * And the selection of the talk guests caused outrage there.

You can also read how leading politicians reacted to AKK's surprising resignation * at Merkur.de *.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen Digital editors network.